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PHP HOW-TO

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan)

v26.0, 31 Jan 2002


This document tells you howto develop PHP programs and also to migrate all the Windows 95 GUI applications to powerful PHP + HTML + DHTML + XML + Java applets + Javascript. The information in this document applies to all the operating sytems where PHP is ported that is - Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/ME, Windows 2000, BeOS, Apple Macintosh (is BSD unix??), OS/2, all flavors of Unix like Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Unixware, Sinix, BSD, SunOS, etc.. and mainframe operating systems and on all operating systems where "C" compiler is available.

1. Introduction

2. PHP runs on Microsoft Windows!!

3. PHP Download

4. Quick Start steps

5. Major Features of PHP

6. Brief History of PHP

7. A Simple Example

8. SOAPX4 and PhpXMLP

9. PHP Libraries

10. PHPGem package

11. PHP Application Servers

12. Object Oriented Features - public, private, protected

13. HTML Editor

14. IDE tools for PHP

15. ctags for PHP

16. Debugging PHP

17. General purpose programming with PHP

18. Performance benchmarking - PHP, ASP, JSP, Coldfusion

19. Limitations of PHP

20. PHP Tutorial

21. Related URLs

22. Other Formats of this Document

23. Copyright

24. Appendix A PHP examples

25. Appendix B Midgard Installation

26. Appendix C - Debug tool phpcodesite


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